Tomb Raiding: All Things Merge, Starting with 400x Strength

After escaping through the narrow gap, the group sat down to rest on top of the rock wall.

"SaSa, didn't you say that the mechanisms in the previous tomb chamber were constructed using the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams combined with Qimen Dunjia, and that as long as you entered the Life Gate, you could smoothly enter the main tomb chamber? How come we still encountered such a dangerous mechanism!"

Yi Sa shook her head: "Normally that's how it is, but there must be something wrong with it."

Don't you think there's a problem?

"What's wrong, Brother Zhang Hao?"

Do you still remember the Lu Palace?

Zhang Hao suddenly realized that their actions seemed to have been secretly manipulated from the moment they entered the underwater tomb.

It's as if a fixed route has already been set up. No matter what mechanisms or traps are set in the ancient tomb, the purpose is always to lead people along that fixed route.

Upon careful reflection, one can see that although these traps seemed dangerous, they always left a glimmer of hope.

This reminded him of the Lu Palace, which had been transformed by so-called gods in order to select suitable bodies.

When someone finally reaches the main burial chamber after going through great hardships, they will emerge and forcibly take over the body of another person with their own consciousness.

If Zhang Hao hadn't possessed the All Things Fusion System, his strength would have surpassed those three people.

Presumably, Uncle Wu, Wu Tianzhen, and the others are no longer the same people they once were.

Now that the underwater tomb gives him the same feeling, Zhang Hao suspects that the underwater tomb is actually a setup by Wang Zanghai, with the purpose of selecting a suitable body.

After Zhang Hao reminded her, Wu Tianzhen immediately understood.

"Uncle, do you mean there are monsters in the underwater tombs that can take over other people's bodies with their own consciousness?"

Zhang Hao nodded: "That's right. Everyone must be careful with every step from now on, so as not to give anyone an opportunity to take advantage of us."

"I understand, Uncle."

Yi Sa and Ding Yudie listened with puzzled expressions.

Even though she couldn't understand what Zhang Hao was saying, she still felt that she was connected to what he was saying.

"Fatty, where are you going?"

"There seems to be a hole ahead, I'll go take a look."

During the break, the fat man suddenly got up and walked in one direction. Wu Tianzhen asked him a question out of curiosity.

A moment later, the fat man's voice came from ahead: "Come quick, there's a tomb robber's hole over here, and there's a blood letter next to it!"

Zhang Hao and the others gathered around when they heard the fat man call out.

Before me was a neatly constructed tomb robbery tunnel, with several crooked, dark brown characters at the entrance.

The fat man held up his flashlight to illuminate the writing at the entrance of the tomb, and read aloud:

"Uncle Wu harmed me. I had nowhere to turn and died a tragic death in the ancient tomb. Who exactly is Xie Nianhuan? Why did Uncle Wu harm him?"

"Impossible. My third uncle would never harm anyone. There must be some secret he's hiding."

Wu Tianzhen was utterly incredulous when he saw these words. His Uncle Wu always cared for him so much; how could he possibly do such a thing?

It should be noted that the Xie family and the Wu family are cousins.

Then it's even less likely that Uncle Wu would do such a thing.

Zhang Hao patted Zha Wutianzhen on the shoulder and comforted her, "It's okay, a few words don't explain anything. Let's go into the tomb and take a look; there might be some clues inside."

Wu Tianzhen nodded, raised her flashlight, and went into the tomb.

Zhang Hao and the others followed them inside. The tunnel was narrow at the outside but loose at the inside, becoming more spacious as they went further in.

After walking several dozen meters through the tunnel, the group entered a spacious cave.

As soon as they entered, everyone shivered. The temperature inside was much lower than in other places, and the cave was even covered with a thin layer of frost.

"What kind of place is this? It's like a cold storage room. How can it be so cold in there?"

The fat man kept rubbing his hands together and breathing on them, all the while complaining.

Just then, Wu Tianzhen suddenly exclaimed, "Third Uncle!"

Then he rushed forward without looking back.

Zhang Hao remembered that Uncle Wu was not at the shipwreck tomb at this time. Could Wu Tianzhen have seen a ghost?

He hurriedly followed.

Not far after they ran, they saw Wu Tianzhen holding a frozen corpse and crying.

The corpse looked exactly like Uncle Wu, only younger.

"Naive, this isn't Third Brother."

"What? My uncle is clearly my third uncle, how can you say he isn't?"

Zhang Hao pointed to the clothes on the corpse: "The style of his clothes is clearly not from recent years."

After Zhang Hao pointed it out, Wu Tianzhen finally realized: "That's right, and Third Uncle is also older. So who is this person, and why does he look just like Third Uncle?"

The fat man in the group had also met Uncle Wu before. He rushed forward and was also surprised when he saw the corpse on the ground.

"How can there be two people in this world who look so alike?"

Zhang Hao was also puzzled when he saw the body. It was said that Xie Nian and Uncle Wu were cousins ​​and looked very similar.

However, he knew that neither of the two people were dead, so the body could not be Xie Nianhuan.

If it's neither of them, then who could it be?

"Fatty, turn the body over and take a look."

Zhang Hao suddenly noticed that the bones on the corpse seemed to be misaligned.

This situation made him think of the bone-shrinking technique that could transform one's appearance.

Although the fat man didn't understand Zhang Hao's purpose, he still did as he was told.

He turned the stiff corpse over so that his back was facing upwards.

Zhang Hao reached out and touched the corpse. Although it was frozen stiff, he could still feel that all the bones in the body were misaligned.

He extended his finger and pressed behind the corpse's right ear for more than ten seconds.

Suddenly, everyone heard a "click, click" sound.

The corpse on the ground was slowly being stretched open, just like a doll.

After more than ten seconds, the body stopped responding. When you looked at it again, its appearance and physique were completely different from Uncle Wu's.

"If it's really not Uncle Three, then who is this person, and why is he pretending to be Uncle Three?"

Wu Tianzhen looked puzzled.

"Shh, shh, shh!"

Suddenly, Zhang Qilin, who had been silently following the group, drew his Black Gold Ancient Sword and swung it at the corpse, cutting off its clothes.

The entire upper body of the corpse was fully exposed.

A phoenix tattoo was visible on the left shoulder of the corpse.

"So that's it."

Zhang Qilin's seemingly random remark only deepened everyone's confusion.

Only Zhang Hao understood the meaning behind his words.

The phoenix is ​​the totem of the Wang family, and the presence of a phoenix tattoo on the corpse means that he was a member of the Wang family.

For reasons unknown, the Wang family sent someone in their family who knew bone-shrinking skills to impersonate Uncle Wu in the sunken ship tomb.

I just don't know what happened to him that led to his death here.

A group of people surrounded the body and examined it several more times, but they found no clues and had no answers to their questions.

So they had no choice but to continue along the cave.

As they walked, the cave became narrower and narrower, until finally another tunnel appeared at the end of the cave.

The group crawled through the tunnel and moved forward for a distance before entering a tomb chamber.

The tomb chamber was very large, with a coral tree that was two or three meters tall in the middle, and hexagonal bronze bells hanging all over the tree.

When the flashlight beam shone on the tree, the light bathed the entire tomb chamber in a bright red glow.

"My goodness, how many treasures are in the shipwreck graveyard? This coral tree must be the tallest and largest ever!"

And those bronze bells above, they're at least from the Warring States period; each one is priceless!

The fat man was overjoyed the moment he saw the coral tree. He walked towards it without thinking and reached out to touch this priceless treasure.

"stop!"

Zhang Hao's loud rebuke froze the fat man in place.

"Brother Zhang Hao, what's wrong?"

"Don't touch this tree if you don't want to die. Look what's under it."

Upon hearing this, the fat man looked towards the coral tree.